Between law and Justice: A reader on law and Society

The Struggle of Man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting
Milan Kundera

It is commonly recognized that law is one of the most severely contested sites in India. What is often ignored is that the archive is an equally important site for contestations around law, social struggles and power. If the official memory of the law resides in court records and cases, the social life of law has been preserved in scattered archives. This database attempts to begin a collaborative process through which we can piece together the story of law and society scholarship in India.

It contains articles from different journals and books on the following issues. If you are interested in a DVD version of the datbase please write to lawrence@altlawforum.org or
j.nichani@gmail.com



1.    LEGAL HISTORIES
a) COLONIAL
b) POSTCOLONIAL
2.    CONSTITUTIONAL PROMISES AND PERILS
3.    SITING STRUGGLES: HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
4.    ROTI, KAPADDA AND MAKAAN: LAW, LIVELIHOOD AND DEVELOPMENT
5.    SUPREME, YET FALLIBLE
6.    CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
7.    ACCESS TO JUSTICE
8.    CITIZENS/DENIZENS
9.    EDGE OF DESIRE: LAW, GENDER AND SEXUALITY
10.    IN A MINORITY
11.    GREEN JUSTICE
12.    MEDIA LAW & FREE SPEECH
13.    GOVERNANCE
14.    LIFE OF LAW AMIDST GLOBALISATION
15.    LEGAL EDUCATION
16.    INTERDISCIPLINARY CHALLENGES
17.    INTERNATIONAL LAW